The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force has apprehended Irvin Harris of Harvey, 20, who faces two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two Southern University students. Nikiayn Westerfield and Dave Harrison were found shot to death Aug. 13 in a car in the 4000 block of Paige Jeannette Drive.

Harris was arrested at 4:40 p.m. Friday at a friend's house at 2345 Chippewa St. in New Orleans, said Jefferson Parish Sheriff's spokesman Glen Boyd, and booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center.

Law enforcement authorities initially found Harris Thursday and brought him to the Harvey investigations bureau for questioning. However, when the detectives left the room to compare notes, Harris walked out the door.

His alleged accomplice Jeremy Coleman of Waggaman, 19, was arrested last week and charged with second-degree murder.

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Harris refused to speak without counsel present. Before leaving the Harvey bureau Thursday, he said Coleman dropped him off at a friend's house on the night of the killings and returned later with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.